Cooperative Search by Combining Simulated and Real Robots in a Swarm under the View of Multibody System Dynamics

This paper presents a new approach for cooperative search of a robot swarm. After modeling the robot, the mechanical Particle Swarm Optimization method is conducted based on physical robot properties. Benefiting from the effective localization and navigation by sensor data fusion, a mixed robot swar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Qirong Tang, Peter Eberhard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/284782
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Summary:This paper presents a new approach for cooperative search of a robot swarm. After modeling the robot, the mechanical Particle Swarm Optimization method is conducted based on physical robot properties. Benefiting from the effective localization and navigation by sensor data fusion, a mixed robot swarm which contains both simulated and real robots is then successfully used for searching a target cooperatively. With the promising results from experiments based on different scenarios, the feasibility, the interaction of real and simulated robots, the fault tolerance, and also the scalability of the proposed method are investigated.
ISSN:1687-8132